El Salvador
.... tropical coast of
El Salvador. Some of the trees produce a very valuable sap called “balsam
of Peru” (see above). The country also has mineral deposits of gold, silver,
coal, copper, iron, lead, zinc, sulfur, and quicksilver. Other valuable
products include sugar, cocoa, rubber, cotton, tobacco, indigo, and
henequen (for making twine and bags). Most of the farms are small family
holdings and are worked by crude methods. Modern farming machinery is used
on the large estates. The government is trying to ch .....
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Mexico
.... traditions.
The people of Mexico were developing art and cultures long before the
Spanish thought of “discovering” the “New World”. Their cultures were far
ahead of any European cultures at that time. Many different peoples with
their own ethnic differences coexisted. They had a cultural identity, for
instance, they cultivated corn, they had a singular structure of government,
they used the 365 day calendar, they built pyramids, they used similar
rituals and worshipped the same gods and goddes .....
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Egypt
.... is hot & dry. It
is so hot they can't grow crops there, it is wasted land.
The climate is characterized by a hot season from May to September,
& a cool season from November to March. In the coastal region where it is
easy to grow crops, the annual temperatures range from 99 degrees to 57
degrees . Wide variations of temperatures occur in the desert, ranging from
114 degrees during the day to 42 degrees at night. The winter season
Temperature often drops to 32 degrees the most humid areas are
a .....
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Japan
.... the population is largely homogeneous, there is
considerable regional diversity. This diversity is reflected in life-styles,
dialects and speech differing patterns of historic and economical
development. The four largest islands are Hokkaido(2), Honshu, Shikoku,
and Kyushu. Honshu, the largest island, is usually divided into five
regions; Tohoku (3), Kanto (4),Chubu (5), Kinki(6), and Chugoku (7).
According to Cultural Atlas of Japan, Hokkaido is Japan's northern
frontier.(1,p.23 ). Dominated by the .....
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History Of Athens, Greece
.... government
democracy from them. The difference is that our type of democracy is
"representative" democracy. That means that we take one person to
represent all of our interest and thoughts. Athens(Greece) has a "direct"
democracy which means that everybody gets to vote for them self(their own
thoughts and interest). The Untied States follows Athens ideas on how each
individual is important and everybody's idea on freedom and self rule that
was brought up by the Greeks.
Architecture is another importan .....
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Jamaica: "Jammin," Life In Jamaica
.... Under the leadership of their Prime Minister,
Michael Manley, Jamaica began to build up their economy and eventually made
the quality of life better than anybody could remember.
Manley started building up his country from their most valuable and
most wasted resource: bauxite. The Jamaicans were basically getting
scammed by the mining companies. Manley started to raise funds by raising
the tax on Bauxite to 10 times its former amount, with the huge amounts of
money he gained, he put to use bui .....
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Japan
.... in Japan is Japanese. The other languages are
minority languages.
The religion in Japan is made up of 85% of Shinto and/or Buddhism
and the other 15% are made up of others such as Shinko Shakyo (new
religions) and Christianity.
People in Japan have the ethnic backgrounds of 99% Japanese. The
other 1-% includes Koreans, Chinese, and Ainu.
The food and drink that is eaten here is mostly rice. The drink is
sake, which is a strong alcoholic beverage. Sake is the drink that is used
when the people in J .....
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Japan
.... in Japan is Japanese. The other languages are
minority languages.
The religion in Japan is made up of 85% of Shinto and/or Buddhism
and the other 15% are made up of others such as Shinko Shakyo (new
religions) and Christianity.
People in Japan have the ethnic backgrounds of 99% Japanese. The
other 1-% includes Koreans, Chinese, and Ainu.
The food and drink that is eaten here is mostly rice. The drink is
sake, which is a strong alcoholic beverage. Sake is the drink that is used
when the people in J .....
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The Pyramids Of Egypt
.... on the continued existence of their king, a belief that
made the building of the pyramid a concern of the entire kingdom. Many
people would be called to duty to work on the pyramids and many would go at
will. It was found that the Egyptian people actually liked working on the
pyramids. Many youths would travel down the Nile to work on the pyramids
so that they could see the great city of Memphis.
Furniture and riches not to mention body parts of the dead king
were buried with him in the pyra .....
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England: History And People
.... the well-to-do, though some pupils receive government scholarships. Most
public school pupils live in residential houses attached to the school.
Considerable emphasis is placed on sports, especially cricket and rugby.
Among the most famous public schools for boys are Eton (founded in 1440),
Winchester (1380), and Harrow (1611). Many of those in the higher levels of
government or public life attended a public school.
The oldest universities are Oxford and Cambridge, founded in the
12th and 13 .....
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The Civil Rights Museum
.... in every political,
economic, and social life America. This museum has specific information
about my ancestors in civil rights movements. For example; it tells us the
many voices of struggle, Nat Turner, Dred Scott, Fredrick Douglass, etc…
who fought against bondage by stealing from their owners, escape arson,
even homicide.
The civil rights museum is a useful place, because I need to know
where I've been to know where I'm going. There are still thousands of
African-Americans who do not know of .....
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Saint Paul's Cathedral
.... cathedral consisted of a nave of twelve bays, transepts and
a short apsidal choir, which were all built in the round-arched. The
cathedral was completed in 1240. The length of the church was 596 feet.
It was the largest church in England. The spire was 489 feet and was
completed in 1315. It was struck by lightening in 1447 and was not
repaired until 1462. Surrounding the Norman cathedral was the bishop's
palace, the deanery, and the houses of the residentiary canons. A chapter
house was built on t .....
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Area 51
.... of the UFO that crashed in Roswell, New Mexico were
shipped to.
Area 51 is a block of government land about 95 miles north of Las
Vegas. It is surrounded by the Nevada Test Site and the Nellis Air Force
Range. The name "Area 51" supposedly came from a designation appearing on
an old map of the Nevada Test Site. Inside Area 51 is a large Air Force
base, near the shore of Groom Dry Lake, that the government does not
publicly acknowledge. The airspace around the base is off-limits even to
most mi .....
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"The Baltics: Nationalities And Other Problems"
.... and
Lithuanians, ... was of Indo-European stock. The Borussians, who moved
southward to what is now East Prussia, were early subdued and assimilated
by the Germans, while the Letts tended to push northward into Livonia."(1)
The area we now call the Baltics remained sparsely populated and
predominantly non-Christian until about the middle of the 13th century,
when the Teutonic Knights and the Livonian Knights began the first
incursions into the region. "The first invaders of these regions were .....
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Benin
.... tribe, hunters with no political organization; E are Baribas.
90% of the population is rural, and 65% practices animist religion. French
is the common language.
Government. Benin has been under military rule since 1970. The
constitution of 1977 instituted a national assembly, whose members belong
to the sole legal political party, the Benin People's Revolutionary Party.
History. Benin's history dates back to three principalities--Allada, Porto-
Novo, and Dahomey--in the S area who were being pushed b .....
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